Display-cabinet.



J. N. MAGOM & L. B. WALKER. DISPLAY CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED 0020.5, 1911.

Patented Nov. 19, 1912.

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DISPLAY CABINET.

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JOHN NICHOLAS MACOM AND LEWELLYN BENNETT WALKER, 0F POPLAIB, BLUFF, MISSOURI.

DISPLAY-CABINET.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1912.

Application filed October 5, 1911. Serial No. 653,052.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Jot-IN N. MAooM and LEWELLYN B. VVALKER, residing at Poplar Bluff, in the county of Butler and State of Missouri, have invented a Display-Cabinet, of which the following is a specification.

()ur present invention, which generally relates to store service appliances, more particularly refers to that type of goods holders or cabinets disclosed in our Patent No. 996,780, dated July 4, 1911.

This invention primarily has for its object to provide certain improvements on the con struction shown in our patent referred to whereby the cost of manufacture is reduced to the minimum and whereby the operation of the parts is rendered more practical, positive and with greater ease.

Our present invention embodies certain improved features in the mounting of the bottomless drawers and the rotatably supported goods bolt holders, and especially designed for providing for automatically setting the goods holders to a fixed horizontal position when the drawer is closed in so that the same, and the goods contained thereon, are held from accidental sagging or interfering with other drawers and holders above and below the said drawer.

Our present invention also embodies certain improved means for pulling out the drawer and so arranged when the drawer is pushed back into the cabinet to cooperate with the goods holder for aiding in sustaining the said holder in parallelism with the drawer sides.

Our present invention further embodies an improved goods holder so formed whereby the use of the extra clamp devices shown in our patent aforesaid for clamping the goods bolt upon the holder, are entirely dispensed with.

Again our present invention includes an improved construction of the goods holding bottomless drawer having special provision for allowing a limited free movement of the drawer with reference to the stop devices for holding the drawer from pulling out whereby to adjust the goods holder to a position for automatically dropping and displaying the goods.

Our present invention embodies other details of construction and peculiar combination of parts all of which will be hereinafter fully described, specifically pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a perspective view that illustrates the preferred form of our improved goods display cabinet, one of the drawers being shown pulled out to illustrate the manner in which the goods is drawn off the bolt. Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section of the cabinet, taken on the line 22 on Fig. 1, all of the drawers being shown closed. Fig. 3, is a horizontal section thereof on the line 83 on Fig. 2. Fig. 4, is a transverse section of a portion of the cabinet taken on the line M of Fig. 2. Fig. 5, is a perspective view of one of the drawers and the goods bolt holders carried thereby. Fig. 6, is a longitudinal section of the casing and one of the drawers, the latter being shown as pulled out to the stops engaging position. Fi 7, is a similar view showing the drawer pulled out to its limit and the goods holder released from the front and rear end supports therefor. Fig. 8, is an enlarged section of the spring equipped pivot end of the goods holder. Fig. 9, is a detail view of the countersunk washer and the spring for the free ends of the wire holder for the goods bolt.

In the preferred construction of our improved display cabinet the casing or cabinet 1 is of a size suitable for resting on a store counter and is formed with a large compartment 1 at the bottom, for displaying goods or articles other than those contained in the display drawers, mounted in the upper part of the cabinet and arranged in tiers, see Fig. 1. In the present construction, the casing has tiers of closely arranged horizontal guide cleats 10, each of which, near the front end, has a fixed stop 10*, and the said stops project inwardly to engage the longitudinal grooves 20 in the side members 20 of the rectangular frames 2, hereinafter termed bottomless drawers.

21 designates a guide bar or member, that forms, as it were, a supplemental back cross strip of the drawer 2, and the said member 21, has its ends extended through the slotted ends of the side guides of the drawer frame 2, as is clearly shown in the drawings. The cross strip 21, when the drawer is in the closed position, is held up against the rear cross member 21 of the drawer by the stout coiled springs 2525 that rest in the sockets 24 and 21* formed in the members 21 and 110 24 to which the respective ends of the springs are secured by the pins 24 and 25 The cross strip 21 also carries a pair of ten sion spring guide plates 23 that project forwardly and over the cross member 24 of the drawer, they being of such length that they extend over the rear edge of the goods bolt when the drawer is slid back to its closed position.

Each of the drawers 2, in our present construction, has a slot 15 through which the loose end of the fabric extends and the said slot in our present construction is near the lower edge of the front member 27 of the drawer 2, so as to provide for the use of a drawer pull above it. The drawer pull, designated 7, is a spring metal plate bowed back upon itself to form a pull loop 70 and wit-h its ends 71 closed upon each other to project through a slot26 in the drawer front 27. The inner extremities of the ends 71 are turned upon themselves to present a smooth surface to the goods and also serve as a grip for engaging and clamping over the front end of the goods bolt when the finger pull is pushed back, such inner end then acting as a support for the said front end of the goods holder to hold it from tilting or dropping the goods down in the way of a free manipulation of the drawer beneath it.

The goods holder 3 in the present construction of our cabinet has the same general shape as the holder in our patent above referred to, it being constructed of a stout spring wire bent to form a front member that extends lengthwise of the drawer frame, is slightly bow-shaped, and midway its length is bent upon itself to produce a short pivot bearing 31, and again bent near its opposite ends to form loop eyes 3434 that form substitutes for the clips 34, shown in our patented holder. The opposite ends 32 of the wire are bent inwardly and have their terminals closely held into a long combined clamping and bearing portion 33 that forms the pivotal bearing opposite the hearing 31. The ends 32 of the holder are freely movable, relatively to each other, to provide 1 for slipping one of said ends over and the other of said ends under the bolt board 5, and the latter, when slipped entirely across the holder has one edge extended between the loop eyes 34, which in connection with the U-shaped keeper 41, that engages the other edge of the board, holds the goods bolt board from lateral movement upon the holder 3.

In the present form of our invention the stout coiled spring 35 that engages the U shaped keeper 41, and which serves as a socket for the ends 32 of the holder, is capped by a washer like disk 4 having countersunk portions 40 that drop into the spring coil and a central projecting pintlelike portion 42 that forms the pivotal bearing for that end of the holder, the adjacent side member of the drawer having a vertical recess 43 into which the pintle portion 40 is dropped, when fitting the holder into the drawer, the pintle 31 at the other end fitting a socket 43 in the other side member of the drawer frame.

By reason of providing a spring metal drawer pull arranged as shown and described, the use of the gravity drop device on the front of the drawer as shown in our patent mentioned is avoided, since the inner or clamping ends of the said pull hold the loose end of the fabric tightly and keep the loose or displayed end from being accidentally pulled back through the slot during the operation of closing the drawer, it being understood that the said clamping ends of the drawer pull also act as a support for the front end of the goods bolt when the parts are at the normal or closed position.

The manner in which our improved display cabinet is used is explained as follows: hen it is desired to pull out the drawer having the sample of goods selected, the operator pulls on the drawer pull, and the latter having a limited free movement pulls off and releases the front end of the goods bolt, see Fig. 6, the turned-up ends of the pull member keeping it from pulling out of the slot in which it moves and in engaging the drawer front pulls the drawer out with it. The drawer is then pulled out to the position shown in Fig. 7, the cross member 21 moving with it, until the said member 21 engages the fixed stops 10 it being understood that the plates 23 hold the goods bolt in the horizontal plane as it is being pulled through the front of the casing, and since the drawer has a further forward movement, it follows that in completing the outward pull of the drawer, the rear end of the goods bolt is pulled from between the spring plates with the holder so soon as it is pulled entirely out of the casing, it being also clear from the drawings that the drawer is sup ported in the horizontal position by reason of its rear end being held between the guide cleats 10, see Fig. 2. After the drawer has been pulled out to free the goods bolt from its back end supports, the springs 25 pull the drawer inwardly to bring the member 24 against the guide 21, and when it is desired to close the drawer the operator first pulls out the drawer under the tension of the springs'25, then moves the holder to the horizontal position, and then releases the pull on the drawer, which in again sliding back under the tension of the springs 25 forces the rear edge of the goods bolt between the ends of the spring plates 23 and thereby secures the bolt in the desired position, after which the drawer is shoved back into the cabinet in the ordinary manner. After closing the drawer, the drawer pull is pushed back to its limit, which causes the inner or clamping end to embrace the front end of the bolt and hold the free or displayed end of the goods locked from freely pulling back through the display slot.

What we claim is:

1. In a goods cabinet; a casing, a drawer frame mounted in the casing and adapted to be projected out of the casing, a bolt board mounted in the drawer frame, a pulling clip device in the front of the said drawer frame and having limited movement separate from that of the drawer frame whereby to engage the said bolt board as the said drawer frame is pushed into the cabinet to hold the bolt board in the plane of the drawer frame and to release the said bolt board when the said drawer frame is pushed out.

2. In a goods cabinet; a slidable drawer frame, a bolt board movably mounted in the frame, a device mounted in the frame and having a limited movement independent thereof, guides in which the said drawer frame slides, a stop for limiting the outward movement of the frame, the said device having a projection to engage the said stop and a bolt board clip carried by the said device for holding the bolt board in the plane of the drawer frame when the drawer frame is in the cabinet.

3. In a goods holding cabinet of the character described; in combination with a casing having guideways, a bottomless drawer slidable in the said guideway, said drawer including a cross stop member yieldably connested to the rear cross member of the drawer and having flexible projecting plates that normally extend beyond the rear cross member of the drawer, a goods bolt holder mounted within the bottomless drawer and adapted when swung to the horizontal plane to have its rear end moved into engagement with the said flexible plates, and means for pulling the drawer outward with the cross stop member during a part of the outward pull movement of the drawer and away from the said cross stop member when the drawer is pulled out to the limit whereby to release the goods holder.

4:. In a goods cabinet a sliding drawer frame, a relatively fixedly located bolt board pivoted in said frame, a device carried by said frame for gripping and holding the bolt board in the plane of said frame when said frame is within the cabinet.

5. In a goods cabinet, a sliding drawer frame, a relatively fixedly located bolt board pivoted in said frame, a device carried by said frame for gripping and holding the bolt board in the plane of said frame when said frame is within the cabinet, and means operative upon the outward movement of said drawer frame for engaging said gripping device and move it out of engagement with said bolt board.

JOHN NICHOLAS MACON. LEWELLYN BENNETT WALKER. Witnesses:

T. J. MATHIS, SOL Karin.

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